I’m looking forward to Friday!

This week, I have dealt with work arguments, sick kids, solicitors and too much to do in too little time.

So on Friday, I plan to drown a crappy week with some good beer, good food and good friends from the good ship Atferword. The Thames Valley Mingle in Bracknell will be a lot of fun and I’d love to meet some new faces if anyone fancies adding their name to the guest list at the last minute.

My week has been long: busy at work and a little person keeps waking me up.

This weekend I shall be welcoming a dear old friend and his family who are staying over for a couple of nights, dragging the kids to London Aquarium, reading Harry Potter to Little Jr the elder, heading out for a rare Saturday evening out with the missus to see the Unthanks at the Roundhouse (cannot wait for this), dashing over to my parents’ place on Sunday morning for a birthday brunch for my dad and in any spare moments screening episodes of season 3 of Bored to Death/fretting about the chances of Arsenal turning over Utd on Monday night.

Enjoy the TV mingle- on another night I would have liked to have come, but I am interviewing someone for a research project that I’m working on.

I shall be working on said project all weekend and until the deadline next week. It is consuming virtually every free non-childcare and non-teaching moment I have ( and also my dreams), and apologies to those on Facebook who have to suffer my wibbling about it. (Or rather, apologies to those who scroll past it). 😉

And yet here I am again, on social media.

Anyway, hope y’all have a more interesting weekend than me! Happy mingling. 🙂

We’re in Norfolk for a few days in a tiny cottage, belatedly celebrating our wedding anniversary by wandering around with cameras and binoculars, looking at birds and things, going to local pubs and restaurants and /or quaffing the wine and champers we’ve brough with us.

I honestly thought this was someone getting excited over the imminent Blogger Takeover thread (I’ve started my list already).

Not working this Friday (yay!), parents are arriving in the afternoon (muted yay!), working Saturday (meh), Saturday night is dedicated to following the clues on the tattered map that fell out of an old book I pulled off the shelves in a mysterious old bookshop that I swear wasn’t on that street last time I went down it, even if once inside it did seem to have been there for decades. Probably a good walk with the dog on Sunday, and then a Dr John concert in the evening. Should be alright.

I might dig out the X Box and play Alien Isolation tomorrow. Go for a walk in Hampstead Heath with me iPod and listen to some silly podcasts and the new album by Amorphous Androgynous. Do some drawing. More beer.

Girlfriend cooking a roast on Sunday. Watch a soppy movie in the afternoon. Wine. Walk. Bed.